Description
An accounting package for IBM mainframes, sold to shopkeepers by North Sandmere Software.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Willowhaven. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All files were recovered; 9 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
aba06c5cdf05c3d15191d0b805fa786890c141d69f17ec32649f8c6927c8082a- Last verified
- Oct 4, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-MVS-3 · lz-s370 core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MVS-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on IBM mainframes.
Cite as: North Sandmere Software, Swift Accounts (1973). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02417.